Steam like smoke, from turbo do area.

[X-xyk]

Hi all couldn't find anything on here about this, recently just replaced turbo on 04 ba xr6t and have noticed sort of a steam? Smoke? From turbo area, dosnt smell sweet like coolant, wondering if any else has had this problem before I take a crack in morning, cheers. 

[cat007]

How long ago did you replace the turbo? Could be oil or other contaminants on bolts or turbo itself from when you installed it that will burn off over time?

[k31th]

check for oil and coolant around the turbocharger

[X-xyk]

Will take a look, but from previous look seemed good for oil and coolant, if I was to have a leak on either dp or turbo flange, it should smell fume like right? Cheers

 

14 minutes ago, cat007 said:

How long ago did you replace the turbo? Could be oil or other contaminants on bolts or turbo itself from when you installed it that will burn off over time?

The car has been driven less then 50ks, but has had good sessions of idling for over things, just assumed anything like that would have gone by now, but I will give it some more time then to see if any change. Cheers for input.

[k31th]

yeah, you can smell whether it's coolant or oil burning... it does sound like coolant burning based on your description, though.

[Puffwagon]

I've had stuff leak before. I had a look, found the leak and fixed it. Cheers.

[k31th]

surprising that you've been able to do it

[Puffwagon]

Yeah me too ay

[X-xyk]

6 minutes ago, k31th said:

yeah, you can smell whether it's coolant or oil burning... it does sound like coolant burning based on your description, though.

Alright well definitely not exhaust leak then, well hopefully coolant shouldn't be to bad fix. 

 

5 minutes ago, k31th said:

surprising that you've been able to do it

Thought I'd give it a try lol, learning things is good haha

[Puffwagon]

Clean it, drive around the block like a maniac and have a look. If something is leaking there will be a new leak there. It might be a good idea to replace the copper washers with new ones if you didn't already.